Symmetrical Insect Prints

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Objectives:
*Compare and contrast insects to observe symmetry
*Construct a printing "block"from styrofoam of a symmetrical insect
*Show understanding of the printing process
*Work with an "art assistant" and take turns printing

Clay Penguins

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Thank you Artist Woman for sharing your process for creating clay penguins!
Objectives:
  • Learn about penguins in regular classroom and in art
  • Practice molding, pinch and manipulating clay
  • Investigate the results of firing glass with glaze
  • Create a mini penguin sculpture on a base that is interesting from all angles
  • Watch explorers witness emperor penguins in Antarctica

Veterans Day Hearts, "We Love America"

Objectives:
  • Review how to cut out a symmetrical heart by folding paper and drawing half the shape and cutting
  • Discuss the significance of veterans day, the starts and the stripes
  • Practice drawing straight lines with a ruler

Elements of Art: Color Wheel Collage

Objectives:
  • Review the color wheel and why the colors are in a particular order
  • Discuss the art of collage and look at collage art
  • Create a collage color wheel using pages/pictures from magazines

Rain-sticks

Objectives:
*Examine the history of rain sticks
*Create rain sticks from household recyclables, beans and rice.
Vocabulary: Culture, Percussion

Tree of Life

Objectives:
*Examine "The Tree of Life" and learn about artist Gustav Klimt
*Paint a tree inspired by Klimt that includes fall symbolism with metallic paint
Vocabulary: Art Nouvea, Ornament, Metaphor, Element of Line, Spiral, Symbol, Metallic


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"The Tree of Life"

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was an Austrian painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement. His wonderfully abstract “Tree of Life” can be fun and relatively easy to draw when you break it down into steps.

"Ornament to Klimt is a metaphor of matter itself in a state of perpetual mutation, ceaselessly evolving, turning, spiralling, undulating, twisting, a violent whirlwind that assumes all shapes, zigzags of lightning and flickering tongues of serpents, tangles of vines, links of chains, flowing veils, fragile threads," wrote art critic Ludwig Hevesi.



"The Dot"

Objectives:
*To practice the protocol of bell work
*Finish going over Ms. Axon's Expectations
*Create a radial circle to use for the cooperative bulletin board
Vocabulary: Line, Radial Balance, Pattern

Today’s Agenda:

  1. Discuss Expectations and Rules
  2. Tour of the art room
  3. Watch Cartoon based on the book, "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds
  4. Discuss Radial Balance
  5. Create a radial balanced circle with patterns and markers.